I am probably past my quota but now I am getting offended. Clearly you took my 
statement completely out of context and used it add more fuel to a fire which 
did not need it. Your question is absurd if the entire context of this 
discussion was in place. 

Annette

Quoting Bill Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Annette Taylor wrote:
> 
> "....  even in a minimum risk study you are abusing your participants if you
> are asking them to give up their time and energy on a useless task."
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> 
> Does this mean an IRB should not approve a replication of Martin Orne's
> classic demonstration of experimental demand characteristics where he asked
> participants to add up columns of numbers and then tear up their work over
> and over for hours on end? He meant it to be as useless a task as possible,
> and he wanted to see how long they would do it just because he asked them to
> do it for an experiment. Was he abusing his participants?
> 
> see http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/pre0050035a.html
> 
> Bill Scott
> 
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Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego 
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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